The extreme-right candidate Eric Zemmour has proposed to create, if he is elected president, a ministry of "remigration". The goal: "to send back one million" foreigners in five years on charter flights, and to get rid of "illegal immigrants, delinquents and foreign criminals, and foreigners on file". This proposal is riddled with problems.
31-year-old Magdi Masaraa never went to school. After years of exile, this Sudanese has entered a special professional program at the prestigious Parisian institute, Sciences Po. For the student who had "no idea what subtraction was" when he first started school in 2020, the challenge is great. But he is determined to overcome the gap that he believes separates him from his peers.
At the age of 15, Aboubacar, now a refugee in France, fled Guinea. When he crossed the Algerian desert to reach Libya, he was one of only two survivors. Aboubacar told InfoMigrants about this traumatic journey.
Seven leading non-profit organizations have filed a complaint with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in a bid to secure an international investigation into France's management of unaccompanied minors. The activists accuse the French state of "serious violations" in the protection of this vulnerable group.
French politicians have been debating whether there is a link between terrorism and immigration, after a policewoman was killed by a Tunisian man in Paris on April 23. InfoMigrants reviews the current laws on immigration and legalizing undocumented foreigners in France.
More than 18,000 unaccompanied migrant minors have gone missing in Europe in the past three years, an investigation has found. Adriana Homolova from the journalists' collective Lost in Europe says that number is far too high.
"Famille au grand cœur," an association run by a group of refugees and asylum seekers, is setting up in Montpellier in the south of France. The collective aims to offer welcome and support to young new arrivals who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
The French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII) organizes street outreach activities for homeless migrants as well as in migrant reception centers. The aim is to encourage those who have been refused asylum or those without papers to return to their countries of origin.
Following the April 11 release of Bija, an alleged Libyan trafficker who has been accused of crimes against humanity by the UN, several migrants told InfoMigrants about their experiences at the hands of this feared boss of the Libyan coast guard in Zaouia.
Migrants who arrive in Italy irreguarly have to spend a mandatory quarantine on board ships in the open sea. The Italian organization ASGI calls these methods "discriminatory" and highly questionable from a health point of view. An interview.
Hundreds of migrants trying to flee Libya by sea are intercepted by the Libyan coast guard each week. The migrants are nearly always returned to detention centres in Libya. InfoMigrants reviews this process.
In England, a group of volunteer citizens have been keeping watch over the British coast for several months, looking for migrant boats in distress. The goal is to ensure that people who risk their lives to arrive in Kent are properly taken care of.